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June 22, 2012

[SSJ: 7540] REVISED SCHEDULE for Teaching 3.11, June 29th at Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture

From: Sophia Univ., Institute of Comparative Culture
Date: 2012/06/22

This is a revised/updated schedule for a workshop organized by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Project Unit "3/11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
(
http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/projects/3.11_as_crisi
s_and_oppportunity.html )

Teaching 3.11 (
http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2012-2013/Teach
ing_3.11.html )

Issues, Materials, Pedagogy and Research

June 29, 2012 (Friday)
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus Library Building, level 9, room 921

http://www.fla.sophia.ac.jp/about/location

The event is in English and Japanese
Free and open to all

*Unfortunatly, Dr. Hasegawa (Tohoku University) had to cancell his appearance due to illness. We hope for his swift recovery.
More than a year after the triple disaster of March 2011, we have assembled some of the most active and insightful scholars and activists working on 3.11 from a range of disciplines and perspectives to offer their responses to the questions:

--What should we be teaching about 3.11?
--How can we teach it effectively?

For this workshop, each presenter has selected the most relevant materials on 3.11 from their areas and contextualized them in a full syllabus. We organized presenters into thematic panels to collectively identify key issues and resources, to share pedagogical approaches and anticipate the sorts of research that these syllabi can generate.

Workshop Schedule

10:00 Welcome Remarks
David Slater (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Director: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture)

Panel I: Society, Politics and Protest
Rieko Kage (U. of Tokyo) Introduction to Japanese Society and Politics Robert Pekkanen (U. of Washington) Civil Society in Japan Satsuki Takahashi (Princeton U.) Recipes for Disaster:
Cultures of Calamity in East Asia and Beyond Love Kindstrand (Sophia U.) Battlefield Tokyo: Space, ritual and the right to the city

Panel II: Science, Energy and Mobilization Daniel Aldrich (Purdue U.) The 3/11 Disaster from Historical, Comparative, and Social-Science Perspectives Habu Junko (U.C. Berkeley) Anthropology of Japan:
Environment, Energy, and Contemporary Japanese Society Tao Yoichi (Kougakuin U.) Towards the Recovery of the East Japan Disasters - An attempt at regenerating the land of Iitate village, Fukushima Sharon Traweek (UCLA) Downwind: Disaster Futures, Sciences, Governmentalities, Villages, Subjectivities, and Memory Practices

13:00-14:15: Lunch break

Panel III: Community, Rebuilding and Communication Shinji Yamashita (U. of Tokyo) Public Anthropology of Disaster - Focusing on the Great Disaster of East Japan Kimura Shuhei (Fuji Tokoha U.) Advanced Anthropology/Anthropology of Disaster Liz Maly (Disaster Reduction and human Rennovation
Institution) Thinking about Post-Disaster Housing Recovery after the 3.11 Earthquake and Tsunami Todd Holden (Touhoku U.) Mediating the Unforeseen:
Cases and Cultures of Communication during Crisis

Panel IV: Overviews and Crowd-sourcing
Dai Nomiya (Sophia U.) 3.11 Studies
Edward Fowler (UC Irvine) Japanese Literature: Advanced Texts David Slater (Sophia U.) Oral Narratives of post 3.11 Tohoku Panel V: Introducing and utilizing databases Lisa Onaga (UCLA) Teach 3.11 Ted Bestor (Harvard U.) Digital Archive Andrew Gordon (Harvard U.) Digital Archive

17:30 Close

If you have any questions, please contact David Slater
(d-slater[at]sophia.ac.jp)

This event is made possible by a generous grant from the Japan Foundation.

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, JAPAN
TEL: +81-(0)3-3238-4082
FAX: +81-(0)3-3238-4081
Web page: http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/index.html

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